Loitering munitions or kamikaze drones are effective weapons that cause high risk if they get into the wrong hands.

The invasion of Ukraine is typical Russian military action. Long-range cruise missiles are used against civilian and military targets. The thing in the use of the cruise missiles is that the Glonass/GPS systems are effective only if the location of the target is well-known. And another thing is that the system should know all the time if the target is moving. In the western military. 

The problem with the Russian missiles is this: are they accurate enough to make pinpoint accurate attacks? So are they shot at civilian targets on purpose? And how well do their systems stand against high-power ECM (Electronic Counter Measure) jamming? 

The attacks are followed by high-flying recon planes or satellites. The problem is that if the target is moving. The missile should know that thing or it misses the hit. New missiles are so-called kamikaze drones. They are cruising above the battlefield. The official name of those systems is loitering drones. They can use against things like cruise missile batteries. 

Those drones are like Aquila target/recon drones that are equipped with anti-tank or some other type of warhead. The Aquila was the system of the 70s. And there are more advanced systems that are replacing it. But basically, they are all similar systems. 

Those kamikaze drones are transmitting data to the command center. And when the target is visible the controller will give an order to dive against that target which can be a ship or main battle tank. They are normal recon drones that are equipped with a warhead. 

The difference between a kamikaze drone and a cruise missile is minimal. The famous "Tomahawk" cruise missile is the only BQM-119 drone that is equipped with a conventional or nuclear warhead. But "kamikaze drones" can patrol above operational areas and transmit data and then make the attack against the target. 

The kamikaze drones that are using radio control are vulnerable to jamming. The EMP strikes can also drop those things. When we are talking about pinpoint accuracy there are two or three types of internal navigation systems. The GPS is needed to locate the beginning point of the flight of the missile. Then the inertial navigation will take the missile to a certain point of the flight route. 

The other way is to use TERCOM (Terrair contour matching)-system. The TERCOM means, that the system uses a series of images that are stored in the memory of the computers to fly to the target. In that system, satellite or high-flying recon plane will make the 3D topography map by using radar or lidar. And then the missile will use that data to find the route to its target. 

And finally, the image recognition system or ATR (Automatic Target Recognition) will select the target by using scene-matching technology. That system has the image of the target stored in its memory. And when the image that the camera transmits matches with the image that the missile will aim to target. 

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There is only one solution in the mind of the Turkish government, and it's a military victory to Kurds.

There is only one solution in the mind of the Turkish government, and it's a military victory to Kurds.

We know, why the Turkish government doesn't want to discuss anything else than the military solution in the Kurd question. The firepower along with patriotism and a new friendship with Russia is feeding the opinions, that resistance of Kurds can wipe out with military power. Why the government of turkey should discuss if it has the support of both superpowers the USA and Russia? The thing that supports that policy is the retirement of US troops from that area and because Syrian and Russian troops have not opened fire, which is translated as the "green light" for Turkish troops.

About the international safe-zone between Turkey and Kurds. This kind of thing is absurd because the Turkish government wants to get the military victory about this case, and the thing is that the warming relationship between Russia and Turkey are encouraged the Turkish military commanders to take action against Kurds in northern Syria.

The thing, that the commanders want to make is to destroy the bases and support camps of Kurds, and the thing, that makes this situation very complicated is the support, that Turkey hopes to get from the Russian political and military control. Turkey is the one problematic actor in NATO because it has its problems with the attitudes, what is not belong in the official politics of NATO, or leading countries of NATO, what is always said, that they are supporting democracy.

And this is the problem in the relationship between the western world, Kurds and the Turkish government, what has faced the terrorist actions, what are meant for supporting the Kurds, but the bomb strikes and another kind of thing are justifying the military actions against Kurds. This is the thing, that makes the situation so complicated. The thing is that terrorism is a crime, and there is no other policy than an attack against those people.

But as we know the massive firepower and military superiority are not always answer the question. And the road of the military solution against the non-official enemies has chosen Great Britain, Israel, and many other nations. The result has always been the same. The enemy has been crushed in open battle, but then the situation has come more complicated than ever before.

The violence with shootings and bomb strikes has caused fear, and both sides' acts of revenge have caused hate and the financial catastrophe. Poorness is feeding radicalism, and that thing offers more people for offering themselves in the terrorist organizations.

How to handle cyber?

How to handle cyber?

Cyberdefense is one of the most advanced and newest areas of military, and it is called as the fourth element in the things, that military force must control and handle. The cyberattacks are a new threat in the military strategies, and it can be used alone or with other weapon systems. Cyber attacks against web pages are commonly used for disturbing the business and governmental operations, and they have, of course, brought very much publicity for Eastern operators.

One of the biggest problems in cyber defense is how to detect homepages, which contains fake information, or what is using purely trolling? Of course, the data traffic to those homepages is easy to deny, but the thing is that also homepages, what is containing legal and right information can deny. So because of this, there could be a solution that might collect some data of the devices, which are used to make denial requests.

When people are making reports that some homepages are containing illegal or faked information, artificial intelligence can keep the database, what kind of persons are wanted that homepages are denied. The system could collect the data like the nationality of the user of the device, which is used to make that request. And the things like are the owners of those devices some firms can also save in the database.

That thing would help to focus are some homepages causing embarrassing situations in some specific countries or companies, and that would begin the investigations about what is going on with that homepage. And the data, what this homepage involves can analyze. Sometimes is very easy to recognize the reason, why some information is embarrassing for some actors. But sometimes the reason is somehow hard to notice. In those cases, the question is are the denial petitions made for cheating or some other reasons like covering environmental crimes.

But when we are thinking about the way to make cyberattacks, we must understand that there are many ways to make those things. One is simply the "denial of service" attack against homepages, which are gates to some services. In that case, the server or IP-address is bombed multiple "echo request" or simpler to say "ping" calls, what denies the other transmitting with those homepages.

Those attacks are easy to deny by closing the IP-addresses, where that transmitting comes.  But when we are thinking of the cyberattack from the military actions, the military force would operate in two ways. One is the approximate attacks against some social service and other homepages. Of course, those attacks have a great propaganda value, but that thing might disturb so-called real military and intelligence operations.

If we would make meanless attacks against targets like some culture ministry, we would give the warning to the enemy, and the opposite side might track the servers, which is taking part in the attack. And if we would see that attack is reported in the news, we might notice that we are uncovered. When we are looking at statistics that China and Russia along with Iran are top places in the cyberattacks, that thing might tell something like their intelligence is active and they are willing to make those things.

But it can also tell that those countries have caught many times. When we are thinking about Western Intelligence agencies, we must ask one question: are those operators only using more sophisticated and advanced tools in their operations? That might mean that the Western operators have just not caught from those attacks.

And there is a possibility, that some of those attacks might be done by using remote-controlled computers, which is operated from some other country. The bad relationships with Western nations with those countries might give a shield for regular industrial spies, who might work for private operators for making their missions. But when we are thinking about the cyberdefense, it would be a more complicated thing, what we ever believe.

The criminal investigation and details

The criminal investigation and details

When we are thinking about the criminal investigation in the case of violence, there is a couple of questions or details, what the investigator must realize. There is always the possibility that the attacker is acting as the hired actor, and that thing has sometimes forgotten the people, who are working with criminal activities.

One of the detail, what should make the investigator think that the hired person is behind the violence. That detail is that the actor or suspect has not ever seen in that area before. Or the clothes, what are used in those activities are not seen anywhere before that action.

The last thing would tell the investigator, that the person, who is working as an actor in this kind of cases would be dressed specially for that kind of attack. And if the suspect would not be angry, would the case be made by the hired operator.

Normally persons whose motive is hate would yell and roar to their victims. And in that kind of cases, where the target is the victim of hate crime, the actor and victim know together. Normally that kind of violence is happening in the groups of alcohol- or narcotic addicts.

If the person would not have those problems, and somebody would attack without the reason, that could mean that there is something behind that case, that other people would not even want to know. If we are thinking about psychopath those persons are often quite impulsive, and they are not looking for their victim a very long time.

And those people are serial criminals, which means that there must be another similar cases. Here we must realize, that some Mafia-killers are trying to play maniacs when they are caught by police for avoiding the prison. In mental hospital would the time move faster and maybe someday some psychiatrists would recommend that those criminals are allowed to go out from the "institute".

More thoughts about information

More thoughts about information

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At first, we must remember that every each algorithm, what is used on the world of computers is made by humans. And this means that we must read the data, what we are using very carefully. In real life, the thing is that the clicks to some homepages can be bought. Also, the algorithm itself can be manipulated for rising the page ranks of the certain homepages.

That means that we must use a more critical way to think than ever before. Today is very easy to lull in the way of thinking, that every article, what we are reading is involving the data, what have been checked. This is the major problem in the news and sharing links on the Internet. The thing is that the link can send the surfer to the homepages, what seems to belong to the famous news channel, and the URL would tell that the homepage is running in the wrong server and under a wrong domain.

And we ever believe the faked news, or do we? That homepage would involve the data, what seems like authentical material, what is running under the wrong domain. The thing, what would make people trust that information would be very simple. That material can be claimed as the stolen from the real homepages of the news service, and then there would be claimed that the homepages have been changed or the data in those homepages have been otherwise changed. This is the easy way to make fake news more trustable, and in that case, the wrong URL would be easily explained. So think your self would you believe that kind of data?


DoS attack could be used to manipulate and raise the page rank


But how many of us would read the domain? The thing is that the metadata can be manipulated very easily. The thing, what is needed is to create the series of homepages, what will automatically start to bomb some IP-addresses and that would mean the DoS attack. But the purpose of this kind of action would be only to raise the page rank of the homepages. The idea is that the system would render the DoS attack as the clicks to some homepages, and that would raise the page rank of those homepages.

The idea of this kind of thing is that the creators of the new homepages can just focus the DoS attack against their own website for making it more effective and putting it in the more visible place in the search results. This is the thing, what might be prohibited, but that kind of method would be effective. And in some scenarios the persons, who would make the homepages, what involve the fake news would raise the page ranks of their homepages by using this method.